@circuscritic Security wise, it does make sense. Supposedly, you still have these documents in original (edit: I mean, in physical format), and you can scan them once again how many times you want. I imagine it would be worse to simply decrypt these and leave them in a random folder somewhere on users’ phones in plain sight, available to any app that would read them.
There are plenty of options for encrypting your files anyway.
I imagine it would be worse to simply decrypt these and leave them in a random folder somewhere on users’ phones in plain sight, available to any app that would read them.
Why, did it encrypt and then delete the files that it detected as important when it scanned the device? That’s just even worse.
@ReversalHatchery I don’t have access to the feature but I’m assuming the option was rather opt-in? And now they’re sending notifications to everyone affected, so it’s not like it’s doing anything the users are unaware.
I do agree they could have better explained the reason they’re choosing to delete the documents instead of decrypting them.
This is actually hilarious, in a very dark tragic comedy sort of way.
The feature scans and categorizes important documents e.g. passports, IDs, etc., and it’s a feature of Google’s official Files app.
Instead of dropping support and phasing it out, they’re going to kill it and DELETE all of those critical documents for users.
JFC. Awesome.
@circuscritic Security wise, it does make sense. Supposedly, you still have these documents in original (edit: I mean, in physical format), and you can scan them once again how many times you want. I imagine it would be worse to simply decrypt these and leave them in a random folder somewhere on users’ phones in plain sight, available to any app that would read them.
There are plenty of options for encrypting your files anyway.
@FragmentedChicken
Why, did it encrypt and then delete the files that it detected as important when it scanned the device? That’s just even worse.
@ReversalHatchery I don’t have access to the feature but I’m assuming the option was rather opt-in? And now they’re sending notifications to everyone affected, so it’s not like it’s doing anything the users are unaware.
I do agree they could have better explained the reason they’re choosing to delete the documents instead of decrypting them.
I hope that’s the case.